Hello and welcome to The Daring Cardmakers blog!
We are a team of card-makers from the UK, mainland Europe and India who'll try to inspire and encourage you to make some wonderful cards.
Every Friday at about 10am UK time, one of our design team will post a new dare/challenge, along with our creations to get you inspired.
So go on, give it a try - we dare you!
Leave us a comment with a link to your card so that we can view your lovely creations too!

Friday, March 31, 2017

Hello, Thank you so much for joining in with last week's challenge, we hope you'll feel inspired by our new one!Wrap It Up

It's Enfys here with this week's dare....I thought it would be fun to challenge you to use something that was used to wrap a grocery product on your project. So when you are unloading your shopping this week, take a closer look at those cardboard boxes, acetate, plastic, chocolate wrappers or those little nets that held your oranges......We look forward to seeing what you create, and here are some ideas from the design team - check out their blogs to see what they used.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Lythan here today to thank you for joining in with Joanne's Rough and Smooth challenge last week and launch tell you about mine for this week.

Green with a Glimmer of GoldWell it had to be really didn't it. I'm sure we will not be the only challenge blog to feature green this week but when St Patrick's Day falls on a Friday what else can you do? So how about some cards featuring green and a dash of leprechaun's gold if you like!

The team have made some awesomely beautiful cards to get those creative juices flowing, so why not join in this week?

Friday, March 10, 2017

Thank you to everyone who chose elements from Enfys's striking inspiration picture last week, we love to see how the same starting point can inspire such different makes!

It's Joanne here, hosting my very first dare and this week I'd like you to "take the rough with the smooth". It's a philosophy that can be very useful in life - for this challenge I'd like you to contrast something rough (or bumpy) with something smooth/shiny on your cards.

Friday, March 03, 2017

Thank you so much for joining in last week with Dawn's "Tearing" challenge - we hope you had fun with it!

This week its the first challenge of a whole new month, and it's Enfys here with the Elemental Inspiration Picture for MarchHaving lived through various stages of home decor - matching wallpaper and fabrics, G plan furniture and even the dreaded Austrian blinds, I love the clean, uncluttered look of today's decor so chose this wonderful

cool, calm and collected Home Decor photo for this week's inspiration and all
you need to do is choose at least THREE elements from the picture and use them on your own creation.

Here are just a few suggestions to help get you thinking: Colours, Textures, Stripes, Windows, Geometric Shapes, Wood, Framed Picture ....... take a close look, there's lots of elements to choose from!

For more inspiration, check out this little lot from our fabulous design team:

Daring Cardmakers

Current DCM Designers

Currrent Guest Designer

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